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Turck: Google invented the Transformer but is playing catch-up
“So in GPT, which stands for generative pre-trained transformers, the T is a transformer architecture that was actually Developed at Google, and the irony is that Google is playing catch-up to Microsoft and OpenAI right now because OpenAI accelerated the develo…”
Patel: Microsoft Nebius NJ data center didn't drive power price hikes
“That data center has nothing to do with power prices going up. It's super storm standee, like five years ago, knocking or whatever, how many years ago, knocking down the state's electrical infrastructure and then the, then improving all these improvements. And…”
Big tech and AI companies are driving a U.S. nuclear revival
“But yeah, in 24, it turns out that big tech companies and AI companies are the ones driving this, Revival of nuclear power with, you know, Microsoft entering into a deal with Constellation to revive Three Mile Island, which was the site of the last nuclear acc…”
Google, Facebook, Microsoft, and OpenAI used Reddit data for AI models
“Google, Facebook, Microsoft, and OpenAI all used Reddit's data to train their conversational AI models.”
A large portion of CoreWeave's revenue comes directly from Microsoft
“A lot of CoreWeave's revenue also comes from Microsoft on the way back.”
Evans: Big Tech data center spending will exceed $300B this year
“Google, Meta AWS, not Amazon overall, AWS only, and Microsoft spent about two hundred twenty billion dollars building data centers last year, and will spend about 300, maybe over 300 this year, depending on where their numbers come out.”
Amazon spiked cloud CapEx 18 months before Google and Microsoft
“Amazon Spiked almost 18 months before Google and Microsoft did, so they must have seen some of these inference workloads coming.”
Microsoft and ServiceNow report 50-75% developer productivity gains from AI
“So Microsoft and ServiceNow have said there's 50 to 75% increase in developer productivity.”
Thomas Reardon created Internet Explorer in 1994 and led it through IE4
“I started up Internet Explorer in 94 and then worked on IE all the way through IE four, when we finally sort of won the browser war.”
LeCun: Apple, Android, and Microsoft mobile speech recognition use deep learning
“So probably many of you know that most You know, mobile speech recognition application search and stuff like that uses deep learning for the last two years. This is both for, you know, Apple, Android, Microsoft. All of those applications use deep learning for …”
Katti: OpenAI sources compute from all major cloud hyperscalers
“We have compute from, effectively, many sources. So, Microsoft, obviously, is a big partner, important partner. We also have compute, as we have announced, from AWS, Ion Google. So, we have compute from all of the hyperscalers, effectively.”
Patel: CoreWeave secured GPU debt without backstops using Microsoft contracts
“In the case of core wave, they were actually able to no backstop, right? They were able to just say, Hey, look, here's our Microsoft contract for this many GPUs.”
Dohmke: GitHub revenue is included in Microsoft's Azure quarterly KPI
“From a business perspective, that meant the GitHub revenue became part of the Azure KPI that is reported, you know, in, in earnings calls every quarter from Microsoft.”
Microsoft, Google, and IBM build computational services on Jupyter
“Many, many companies are actually building on top of this platform, ah, to build out, ah, computational services, including Microsoft, Google, IBM, Continuum analytics and more.”
Catanzaro: NVIDIA's first major AI model was built jointly with Microsoft
“Our first big model that we trained, we did with Microsoft, right? It was a joint effort where NVIDIA and Microsoft researchers worked side by side to build that.”